The Others [2001] (1 disc)

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• The basis for this movie in an episode of the British series [Armchair Theatre] called {The Others} made in 1970 and remade as a movie called Voices in 1972. This version is more elaborate but the story is the same.
• Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise's high profile divorce was finalized the same week that The Others was released.
• Alakina Mann and James Bentley were cast after an intensive search that encompassed 5,000 children.
• Nicole Kidman originally tried to persuade Alejandro Amenábar and the Weinstein brothers to find another actress for the part. Coming off the bright and exuberant Moulin Rouge!, the actress was initially reluctant to do a film that explored such dark places.
• The script was written by Alejandro Amenábar in Spanish and then translated into English.
• The film opened in the US at number 4 in the box office charts and stayed around that figure for its initial run. Seven weeks into release it actually climbed up to the number 2 spot.
• Executive produced by Tom Cruise, this marked the last collaboration between him and Nicole Kidman prior to their divorce.
• The disease the children have is an actual disease known as xeroderma pigmentosum. It is very rare with roughly a thousand people in the world that have it.
• This is the highest grossing Spanish film ($209,700,000) in the all-time worldwide boxoffice history. As of May 2006 it was 265th.